Today cosmetician Tatsiana Varantsova, 42, was taken to hospital after 16 days of the hunger-strike.

Maryna Tserakh, head of press-service of the New Life Church, told RFE/RL:

-- The ambulance team carried out a check-up of our Church member and took her to the city hospital #1.

Three hunger-strike participants (all women) were taken to hospital from the beginning of the hunger-strike. The hunger-strike lasts for 20 days. 9 people are on hunger-strike and about 100 are fasting in solidarity with the hunger-strikers.